Round 4 of the Commission’s public hearings explored issues affecting Australians living in remote and regional communities, including agricultural lending and issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The hearings were held in Brisbane (25–29 June 2018) and Darwin (2–6 July 2018).
These topics were selected on the basis that they are significant issues within regional and remote communities with the potential to affect the financial wellbeing of Australians who live in those communities disproportionately.
Issues relating to natural disaster insurance, originally proposed for Round 4, were moved to Round 6 of the hearings, which focused on the insurance industry.